Kong unveils AI Connectivity vision to unify APIs, models and agents at scale
New roadmap aims to reduce risk, cost and complexity in enterprise AI deployment
Kong will unveil its AI Connectivity vision and roadmap in a livestream from the New York Stock Exchange later today, outlining a strategy to help enterprises connect, govern and scale intelligence across application programming interfaces (APIs), artificial intelligence models and agent-based systems.
The company said AI Connectivity defines a new enterprise category that supports operationalising AI with enterprise-grade governance, creating a unified layer across APIs, events, large language model (LLM) calls, multi-component program (MCP) connections and agent-to-agent communication.
Kong’s approach aims to address three main obstacles to scaling AI in production: speed, cost and risk.
“As organisations shift from connecting services to connecting intelligence, enterprises need a foundation for how AI systems are built and operated,” said Augusto Marietti, chief executive and co-founder of Kong.
“With AI Connectivity, Kong is defining a new vision for how APIs, AI models, and agents can work together in a unified, enterprise-ready architecture that enables companies to scale AI safely, cost-effectively, and with confidence.”
The company said the roadmap will be realised through Kong Konnect, which it described as the only unified API and AI Connectivity platform.
Recent platform releases include advanced MCP governance in Kong AI Gateway, MCP testing in Insomnia, AI cost governance and monetisation in Konnect Metering & Billing, and KAi, the agentic API platform assistant. A new MCP Registry in Konnect’s API Service Catalog will allow enterprises to register, discover and govern MCP servers and tools used by AI agents.
The livestream will feature Marietti, chief technology officer, Marco Palladino, and Reza Shafii, head of product.
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Lélio Renard Lavaud, vice-president of engineering at Mistral AI, said, “Putting AI to work at scale is critical to our day-to-day, and that’s one of the reasons why partners like Kong are important.”
James Kaplan, chief technology officer of the McKinsey Technology Practice, added, “Accelerating innovation with AI requires deployment at scale, supported by platforms that leverage enterprise-grade services. Companies need a way to connect and govern APIs, models and tools to use AI securely and efficiently at scale.”
The Recap
- Kong will unveil an AI Connectivity vision and roadmap.
- Konnect adds MCP Registry and AI governance capabilities.
- Livestream from the New York Stock Exchange later today.
